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Combustion of Propellants with Ammonium Dinitramide
Author(s) -
Chakravarthy Satyanarayanan R.,
Freeman Jeffrey M.,
Price Edward W.,
Sigman Robert K.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.56
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1521-4087
pISSN - 0721-3115
DOI - 10.1002/prep.200400053
Subject(s) - ammonium perchlorate , propellant , pellets , combustion , deflagration , chemistry , ammonium , particulates , materials science , composite number , chemical engineering , composite material , explosive material , organic chemistry , detonation , engineering
This paper reports a series of experiments involving ammonium dinitramide (ADN), a new energetic oxidizer of potential use in composite solid propellants. The experiments include (a) self‐deflagration of pressed pellets of ADN; (b) combustion of sandwiches with ADN laminae on both sides of a binder lamina that is either “pure” or filled with particulate oxidizer and other additives; and, (c) combustion of propellants with a bimodal oxidizer size distribution, wherein, combustion of coarse ADN and fine AP (ammonium perchlorate) and vice versa were used, in addition to mixtures of coarse ADN and AP, fine ADN and AP, and all‐ADN or all‐AP formulations.